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Biomedicines, 2022 Silicosis is a particular form of lung fibrosis attributable to occupational exposure to crystalline silica. The occupational exposure to crystalline silica also increases the risk of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), cancer and lung ...
I. Căluțu, R. Smărăndescu, A. Rascu
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Trends in silicosis prevalence and the healthy worker effect among gold miners in South Africa: a prevalence study with follow up of employment status. [PDF]
, 2015 BACKGROUND: Given the intimate association between silicosis and tuberculosis, understanding the epidemiology of the South African gold mining industry silicosis epidemic is essential to current initiatives to control both silicosis and tuberculosis in ...
Churchyard, Gavin +5 more
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International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2022 Purpose: High mobility group protein 1 (HMGB1) is a highly conserved DNA-binding nuclear protein that participates in the occurrence and development of silicosis.
Zhuoya Niu +9 more
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The politics of silicosis in interwar Spain : republican and francoist approaches to occupational health [PDF]
, 2008 This article explores the emergence and recognition of silicosis as an occupational disease in interwar Spain. Following International Labour Office guidelines, growing international concerns and local medical evidence, Republican administrators provided
Menéndez-Navarro, Alfredo
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International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2022 Background: The exposure patterns of respirable crystalline silica based on environmental records, as well as the link to different diseases, are not well described.
Rachel Raanan +4 more
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Case Reports in Pulmonology, 2016 Moraxella (formerly Branhamella) catarrhalis was discovered at the end of the nineteenth century, and for many decades it was considered to be a harmless commensal of the upper respiratory tract.
Miguel Angel Ariza-Prota +4 more
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Community-Acquired Pneumonia and Empyema Caused by Citrobacter koseri in an Immunocompetent Patient
Case Reports in Pulmonology, 2015 Citrobacter species, belonging to the family Enterobacteriaceae, are environmental organisms commonly found in soil, water, and the intestinal tracts of animals and humans.
Miguel Angel Ariza-Prota +4 more
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Respiratory parameters at varied altitudes in intermittent mining work [PDF]
, 2017 Objectives: Workers in the mining industry in altitude are subjected to several risk factors, e.g., airborne silica and low barometric pressure. The aim of this study has been to assess the risks for this work category, evaluating single risk factors as ...
Bacaloni, Alessandro +4 more
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Estimating Counterfactual Risk Under Hypothetical Interventions in the Presence of Competing Events: Crystalline Silica Exposure and Mortality From 2 Causes of Death. [PDF]
, 2018 Exposure to silica has been linked to excess risk of lung cancer and nonmalignant respiratory disease mortality. In this study we estimated risk for both these outcomes in relation to occupational silica exposure as well as the reduction in risk that ...
Brown, Daniel +6 more
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International Journal of Occupational Medicine and Environmental Health, 2018 The correlation between quartz dust concentrations in the Swiss enterprises and the incidence of silicosis and other related diseases acknowledged as occupational diseases (OD) was investigated.Quartz dust concentrations were obtained from Suva's databases of occupational health surveillance measurements between 2005 and 2014.
Claudia Pletscher +3 more
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